“A Comparative Study to Assess the Level of Stress Among Bystanders of Patients Admitted in Critical and Non Critical Care Units of HSK Hospital and Research Centre Bagalkot.”

Abstract

Introduction: Stress can be defined as a state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation .stress is a natural human response that promotes us to address challenges and threats in our lives ,everyone experience it .Stress is usual normal part of our daily lives. It is a normal physical reaction to an external or internal pressure that is placed on a person’s system. Stress is the “non specific  response of the body to any kind of demand made up to it”(Selyel 1956).Care givers burden a multidimensional, exacted on care providers can be define as the extent to which caregivers perceived that caregivers has had an advanced effect their emotional, social, financial, physical and spiritual functioning.

Method :A   comparative study design was adopted in order to assess the stress level of caregivers admitted CCU and Non critical care unit in Hsk hospital and research Center Bagalkot. The tool was used for study using perceived stress scale the sample size was included under the study was 120. And the sampling technique adapted was  Nonprobability convenient sampling data was collected through the interview method .The study  revealed  that majority of caregivers has  more stress that is (65%) .Research is concluded need to focus on the impact of stress and coping among family members of CCU and NCCU admitted care unit.

RESULT: The data gathered were summarized in the master sheet and both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for analysis.   The Z  test was used  to find out the significant difference between the two groups that is  difference in the stress levels in Critical and non Critical care unit, the calculated  Z value ( 1.90) is greater than  the  table value ( 1.66) at 0.05 level of significance, showed that there is no  significant  difference between the stress levels among bystanders of patients admitted in critical and non critical groups, hence it is not significant.